“The Banishing” (*1/2 out of four) was a boring horror melodrama set in 1930’s England in which a young reverend (John Heffernan) and his wife and daughter (Jessica Brown Findlay and Anya McKenna-Bruce) move into a mansion that turns out to be haunted although it takes them an awfully long time to figure that out. Umpteenth haunted-house movie is stuffy and blah and goes nowhere for nearly two hours. Yet another shoddy imitation of “The Shining” which is a shining example of why that movie is a classic. Watch “The Vanishing” instead.